So Muslim Brotherhood President of Egypt Mohamed Morsy just sacked the leaders of the military junta General Hussein Tantawi and the Egyptian Army’s’ Chief of Staff General Sami Enan. Morsy has also cancelled the constitutional protections that the Egyptian military has enjoyed and overturned their edicts circumscribing his control over foreign and military policy. That is, as the Muslim…
Another one for the annals of higher education. Fareed Zakaria, TIME and CNN’s media star and Obama foreign policy advisor and media flack has been caught plagiarizing. See here. Both media outlets have suspended him. Interestingly silent in this scandal is Zakaria’s other major professional home: Yale University. You see, in addition to his well known…
This week on the Tribal Update, the satirical newscast produced every week by Latma, the Hebrew-language media satire site that I lead we present BSN’s latest expose on Palestinian heritage sites. We also discuss the roots of the rifts between the leaders of Israel’s social justice protests. Aside from that we consider the causes of the failure of the global…
I am on vacation this week so no article. But last week I gave a lecture in Los Angeles for the Children of Holocaust Survivors. It was a terrific event. Here’s the video of the lecture. I promise I’ll be back next week! In the meantime, have a great weekend.
Ladies and Gentlemen, it gives me great pleasure to announce the return of The Tribal Update, the weekly satirical newscast produced by Latma, the Israeli satirical media criticism site I run. Over the past several weeks of “break” my team has developed new characters and materials some of which we have integrated into this week’s show and some of which…
A couple of weeks ago I was privileged to present the Kyl-Jackson lecture on Capitol Hll. The event was co-sponsored by the Center for Security Policy and the David Horowitz Freedom Center. The event was held under the auspices of Senator John Kyl and the Henry Jackson Institute. Here’s Senator Kyl’s introductory remarks. And here’s my lecture.…
Less than 100 days before the US presidential elections, the Obama administration is openly denying Israel’s sovereignty over Jerusalem. Can this be a vote-getter? Last week, the Emergency Committee for Israel released an ad titled, “O, Jerusalem.” The commercial showed administration officials squirming when asked to name the capital of Israel, and highlighted the recent refusals of White House…
And he didn’t even need to be asked in order to give us the answer. I especially love the part about the Palestinians… …that’s right, he never mentioned them. How refreshing, an American leader who doesn’t think that Israel is a synonym of “peace process.”
Someone should ask Romney when he’s in Jerusalem. Perhaps he has a better idea than the sitting president who seems to have forgotten the answer.
As regular visitors to this site know, Latma, the donor-funded Hebrew language media satire website has taken a break from our regular weekly satirical television on internet newscast The Tribal Update to explore new ideas. We’ll be coming back next week. In the meantime, here are a bunch of sketches we’ve worked on in recent weeks. I hope you enjoy them…